ITT: We discuss the upcoming 2012 elections in the USA. There will be wildly disparate poll numbers, quotes taken out of context, twice as many mentions of Ron Paul here as the number of votes he’ll actually receive, and in the end, as always, no matter who wins, we all lose.
Incumbents:
President: Barack Obama (D)
House: GOP 242 – Dem 193
Senate: Dem 53 – GOP 47
>>70
It's Romney.
Ron Paul counts for something, but not in the Republican party.
Smart of Santorum to do that, now if Romney loses against Obama, Romney will be totally out of the running for the 2016 election, leaving Santorum left saying "See? I told you he was useless."
PLEASE VOTE FOR ROMNEY
>>73 Can you guarantee that he will he not shit on the Constitution like the current and previous presidents have and continue to do? In that case, I'll vote for him gladly.
And Gingrich calls it quits!
Now the only alternative left to Romney is Ron Paul!!
Will Ron Paul finally get the respect he's been waiting for and win a few primaries? Or will Romney crush his dreams and leave him crying like John Boehner?
Ron Paul wins Maine!!
http://news.yahoo.com/paul-wins-majority-delegates-maine-gop-174422402.html
OH NO!!!
Ron Paul has ran out of money!!
Will this finally clinch the nomination for Romney? Or will a miracle save us all from the unthinkable? Here's hoping for a Romney sex scandal (preferably a gay one)!
> Here's hoping for a Romney sex scandal (preferably a gay one)!
Looks like Romney is the winner... :/
>>79
...according to the AP delegate count.
In Iowa, the AP still lists 13 delegates for Romney, 13 for Santorum, and 1 for Paul. Only 13 delegates have been chosen in Iowa so far, and of those, at least 10 are Paul supporters. This is just one of many examples where the AP has claimed delegates for Romney where the delegates have not been selected yet, and it shows that their strategy when they end up being wrong is to just stick their fingers in their ears and keep shouting that Romney is the winner.
>>80
Okay, NOW Romney is the winner.
Not like it matters, though. He's pathetic. Even the Republicans don't like him. For all the promises he's broken, Obama still has the loyalty of his base of support. If these guys were horses, Romney would have 50 to 1 odds, maybe even worse.
As for me, I'm not voting for either of these assholes. I might make a literal bet on the election, though.
I had high hopes for Santorum as Republican candidate. It would be a landslide for Obama.
>>82
I am not so sure. You may recall that Bono, of U2, endorsed Santorum, because of Santorum's work with AIDS charities.
Yes, it boggled my mind too. Nonetheless, I'm not making it up:
Mitt Romney so rich his dollar signs have 3 slashes!
>>85
Have fun wasting your vote. Seriously, could there ever be a stronger argument for electoral reform than the choice between Obama and Romney?
>>86
A vote for Robamney is a vote against having any reason to vote. At least I'll be able to say I didn't help those fuckers.
There ought to be a movement to encourage absolutely everyone to vote for their favorite third party candidate. Being able to feel so smug about it might be motivation enough. I suppose there's some reason for that idea not to work, though.
Jenna Jameson supports Mitt Romney
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/retired-porn-star-jenna-jameson-says-she-supports-143703925.html
Because when you don't want to share your millions with the masses then Romney is the candidate for you! The poor and middle class can just bugger off!
Mitt Romney chooses Paul Ryan as his VP running mate.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/live-video-mitt-romney-announces-vp-pick-123251121.html
Romneys going to win.
>>91
On the one hand, I fear for the future of the US if he wins.
On the other hand, I sort of hope that he does, so people will realize that he's exactly the same as Obama (other than skin color, which is completely irrelevant) and stop voting for the same old worthless piles of shit.
>>92
Paul Ryan would never let Romney be like Obama!
It's just like when McCain chose Palin allover again, Romney's just trying to appease the far right who don't think he's conservative enough.
>>93
The vice president has no say at all in what the president does.
Just look at Biden... All he does is sit around and make racist comments.
>>94
Just like Dick Cheney had no say at all over anything Bush did?
>>95
Yes. Bush did the same things Cheney would have done because those were the things Bush wanted to do.
The debate went well.
>>97 I disagree. The debate was a fucking disgrace. Obama and Romney lied their asses off and Jim Lehrer didn't ask them any actual tough questions, sticking with unexplained references to tax laws that most Americans have no clue about. And if PBS isn't going to ask any tough questions, the networks sure as hell won't. I'm depressed for the future of my country.
Spoilers: Vladimir Putin wins American elections.
Obama did much better in the second debate, we'll have to see how the final debate will go though before the election winner can be predicted.
Oh, my poor thread. I'm so sorry I neglected you but it just got boring after all the nuts were weeded out of the Republican primary.
If you're like me, you've all been locked alone in an interior room of the house without television, radio, or an Internet connection, eating cold MREs and ignoring every knock at the door because the ads/party operatives are everywhere all the time. RELAX, IT'S ALMOST OVER!
This morning, electoral-vote.com is calling it a solid Obama victory with 294 electoral votes to Romney's 220 and the 24 up for grabs. That's if their aggregate polls actually hold true (reminder: 270 needed to win). States that could shake it up include Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida. If you live there, consider voting! If this is the first time you've heard this suggestion and you live in one of those states, consider having your hearing checked!
Today's the day.
Now that I look at >>102, it shows how much Romney and Obama got, but not how much the other guys got. I know it will be next to nothing, but I'd still like to know.
We have some results! As of about 2AM EST, most outlets are reporting that Obama has won, taking both Ohio and Pennsylvania. Florida could go either way, but at this point, it doesn't really matter. (You can't go all 2000 on us this year, Florida!)
President:
✔Obama (D) 303 +/- 29
Romney (R) 206 +/- 29
Senate:
✔Democrats: 51 +/- 2
Republicans: 45 +/- 2
Independents 2 (both are left-leaning)
House:
✔Republicans: 226 +/- 33
Democrats: 176 +/- 33
Source: CNN
Gay Marriage passed in Maine, and pot was legalized in WA!
>>106
Pot legalized in CO, too. Ironically, it was probably because all of the Obama voters.
Johnson won one percent of the popular vote.
>>107
Oh? Why's that ironic? Has Colorado been against pot in the past? Sorry I don't know anything about that state.
( ﾟ ヮﾟ) Puerto Rico voted for statehood!
>>106
I think something legalizing gay marriage was also passed in Spain recently. Hopefully more will follow.
>>107 Oregon voted for Obama to, but we didn't legalize pot here!
Linking Obama with pot legalization is quite a stretch.
>>110
A quick look on Wikipedia says that Spain legalized gay marriage nation wide in 2005, unless there had been some region where it was not allowed that was overturned recently?
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Obongo is fucking shit!
GET OUT NOW YOU DUMB MONKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OBONGO BURN IN HELL
Obama why have you done lately?
Joni Ernst ate Obama's balls!
Mr. T ate mine!